Seven challenges in image quality assessment: past, present, and future research

DM Chandler - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Image quality assessment (IQA) has been a topic of intense research over the last several
decades. With each year comes an increasing number of new IQA algorithms, extensions of …

No-reference image and video quality estimation: Applications and human-motivated design

SS Hemami, AR Reibman - Signal processing: Image communication, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the basic background knowledge necessary to design effective no-
reference (NR) quality estimators (QEs) for images and video. We describe a three-stage …

Most apparent distortion: full-reference image quality assessment and the role of strategy

EC Larson, DM Chandler - Journal of electronic imaging, 2010 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The mainstream approach to image quality assessment has centered around accurately
modeling the single most relevant strategy employed by the human visual system (HVS) …

VSNR: A wavelet-based visual signal-to-noise ratio for natural images

DM Chandler, SS Hemami - IEEE transactions on image …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an efficient metric for quantifying the visual fidelity of natural images
based on near-threshold and suprathreshold properties of human vision. The proposed …

Moving image compression quality enhancement using displacement filters with negative lobes

GA Demos - US Patent 6,728,317, 2004 - Google Patents
BaSe layer 1 100 image filtering techniques, motion vector representation and
determination, de-interlacing and noise reduction enhancements, motion analysis, imaging …

Methods and systems for converting 2D motion pictures for stereoscopic 3D exhibition

S Zhou, P Judkins, P Ye - US Patent 8,411,931, 2013 - Google Patents
US8411931B2 - Methods and systems for converting 2D motion pictures for stereoscopic
3D exhibition - Google Patents US8411931B2 - Methods and systems for converting 2D …

Apparatus and method for capturing a scene using staggered triggering of dense camera arrays

B Wilburn, N Joshi, MC Levoy, M Horowitz - US Patent 8,027,531, 2011 - Google Patents
This invention relates to an apparatus and a method for video capture of a three-
dimensional region of interest in a scene using an array of video cameras. The video …

Techniques and systems for develo** high-resolution imagery

HS Sawhney, Y Guo, R Kumar, KJ Hanna… - US Patent …, 2007 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and techniques for synthesizing high-resolution images are described.
Using as input hybrid high-and low-resolution images (110, 120), processing techniques …

Method and apparatus for processing images

S Adkins, K Hanna, J Bergen, R Kumar… - US Patent App. 10 …, 2003 - Google Patents
ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for accurately computing parallax information as
captured by imagery of a Scene. The method computes the parallax information of each …

Method of converting resolution of video signals and apparatus using the same

H Lee, C Kim, D Park, S Lee, A Lukin - US Patent 7,375,767, 2008 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method converts a resolution of video signals, the method including:
calculating up-sampling and down-sampling ratios based on a resolution of an input video …